NBR rolls out scheme for tax returns e-filing
Taxpayers will be able to file their tax returns online in the next fiscal year, the National Board of Revenue said yesterday.
“As a citizen, you will no longer need to visit us to file your tax returns,” NBR Chairman Md Ghulam Hussain said at a press briefing, organised to announce the e-filing scheme.
The move, the revenue authority said, will enhance transparency and accountability in tax filing and ensure higher compliance.
Currently, less than 1 percent of the population pays income tax regularly, although the NBR is of the belief that the country has 60 lakh people with taxable incomes. Of them, nearly 15 lakh have TINs now.
Kalam spurs youths to work hard
Famed former Indian president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam mesmerised a huge gathering of youths in Dhaka yesterday with his usual inspirational speech, pushing them for dreaming great and defeating failures.
“There will always be problems in life. Problems should not become your captain, rather you should become the captain of the problem, defeat the problem and succeed,” said the scientist while addressing over 700 university students at Sonargaon Hotel in the capital.
He is now in the capital to attend the 110th founding anniversary of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Dhaka. The two-day celebration kicked off with the dialogue with the students, reports the Daily Star.
Bangladesh tops tourists arrival chart in India
Bangladesh has topped the tourists arrival chart in India, followed by the US and the UK. According to the latest figures released by the Ministry of Tourism, 7,32,105 Bangladeshis visited India in September 2014, which is 14.79 per cent of the total foreign tourist arrivals of 4.95 lakh in September. It is followed by the US (11.88 per cent) and the UK (8.33 per cent)
In the past two years, tourists arrival from Bangladesh is on the rise. In 2012, about 4,87,397 tourists visited India and it rose to 5,24,923 in 2013. In both these years Bangladesh was third in the list of source countries for foreign tourist arrivals to India consisting of 7.41 and 7.63 per cent respectively. During the period, the US and the UK topped the chart.
bKash Bangladesh: What explains its fast start
Bangladesh is the heartland of a four decades old microfinance industry. CGAP’s 2013 research indicated that nearly any household that wants a microfinance loan could get one. At the same time, basic mobile payments and savings accounts have spread like wildfire since first introduced three years ago.
The fastest growing provider (by far) is bKash, a specialised company in Bangladesh focused on mass market mobile financial services. Launched in July 2011, bKash reached 11 million accounts by the end of 2013, just 30 months after launch. This ha...
The fastest growing provider (by far) is bKash, a specialised company in Bangladesh focused on mass market mobile financial services. Launched in July 2011, bKash reached 11 million accounts by the end of 2013, just 30 months after launch. This ha...
Nearly 1,700 RMG factories inspected
Two big groups of retailers and apparel brands have completed a major step toward advancing garment-factory safety in Bangladesh: They have finished inspecting nearly 1,700 factories in that country.
A European-dominated group — the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, with 189 corporate members, including H&M and Carrefour — said on Tuesday that it had found more than 80,000 safety problems in the 1,106 factories it inspected.
The other — an American-dominated group, the Alliance...
The other — an American-dominated group, the Alliance...
Girls at risk as Bangladesh mulls lowering marriage age, says HRW
Millions of girls are at risk if the Bangladeshi government goes ahead with a proposal to lower the age of marriage to 16, Human Rights Watch warned on Monday.
The impoverished South Asian nation has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, despite a three-decade-old law which bans marriage for girls under the age of 18.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government was now considering an amendment to the Child Marriage Restraint Act, which would also lower the age of marriage of men to 18 from 21.
“Setting the a...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government was now considering an amendment to the Child Marriage Restraint Act, which would also lower the age of marriage of men to 18 from 21.
“Setting the a...
